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Discussion on: The Art of Transpilers - From One Programming Language to Another

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FJones • Edited

JavaScript-targeting languages are interesting, because they're technically transpilers, but ultimately build to a technically-interpreted language. Thus, Kotlin and Dart are also, technically, transpiled.

And since there's assembly dialects that are directly machine code, things become really complicated at some point, when you want to draw the line between compiled and transpiled languages. That's not even mentioning VM bytecode which could also be considered a language unto its own, making both PHP and again Kotlin transpiled languages.